Cool Whip straight from the tub for dessert? There should be enough pumpkins for Halloween jack-o-lanterns this year, but maybe not for the canned pumpkin used in Thanksgiving pies, according to crop experts in Illinois, the country’s top pumpkin-producing state.
If a similar shortage hits the Stove Top Stuffing industry, a disaster declaration from President Barack Obama may be in order.
Surfing the vast cultural wasteland: “The Man in the High Castle,” a drama premiering next month on Amazon, is set in an alternate-reality 1960s America in which there is no counterculture youth rebellion because the U.S. was conquered by the Nazis in World War II.
No rock ‘n’ roll, bra-burning feminists or dirty hippies — in other words, Idaho.
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1989, the Communist Party of Hungary renounced Marxism in favor of democratic socialism.
Undecided about his next move, Bernie Sanders flipped a coin: Heads Vermont. Tails Hungary. It was heads.
— Mark Carlson and Jon Bauer, Herald staff
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